Abandoned Quote by Mark Haddon

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or…

— Gail Godwin

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

— Amy Tan

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

I've never abandoned the novel.

— V. S. Naipaul

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of…

— Lauren Groff

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

— Cory Monteith